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Sunetra Pawar resigns as Rajya Sabha member after Baramati bypoll win
PTI | May 7, 2026 4:57 AM CST

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Sunetra Pawar has resigned from her Rajya Sabha seat. This comes just two days after her significant victory in the Baramati assembly bypoll. She secured a record margin of over 2 lakh votes. Pawar had become a Rajya Sabha member in June 2024. She was sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra on January 31.

Mumbai, Two days after winning the Baramati assembly bypoll with a record margin, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP president Sunetra Pawar on Wednesday tendered her resignation as a Rajya Sabha member.

Pawar submitted her resignation to Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan, said her son and Rajya Sabha MP Parth Pawar.

Sunetra Pawar won the Baramati by-election, which was necessitated following the death of her husband Ajit Pawar, with a record margin of 2,18,034 votes.


She had become a Rajya Sabha member in June 2024 after losing the Lok Sabha polls. She was sworn in as the Deputy CM of Maharashtra January 31, days after the death of her husband Ajit Pawar in a plane crash in Baramati.


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